Facing for walls and ceilings.



A. BIBERFELD.

FACING FOR WALLS AND CEILINGS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY3I 19H].

1,212,005. Patentd Jan. 9,1917.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE] ARTHUR IBIBERFELD, 0F BERLIN, GERMANY,ASSIGNOR, BY MESNB ASSIGNMENTS,

THE FIRM HEINRICH WOLLHEIM AND OSSENBACH, INDUSTRIEGESELLSGHAFT' M. B.13.1, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

FACING- FOR WALLS AND GEILINGS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 9, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR BIBERFELD, a citizen of the German Empire,and residing at Berlin, Germany, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Facings for Walls and Ceilings, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to facings for walls and ceilings, and a primaryobject is to provide an improved facing comprising rods flexiblyconnected together, mounted loosely in a row on bands and so shaped thatthe structure thus formed can be bent transversely of its plane in bothdirections, the rods being attached to strips fastened on the wall.

It is well known to employ wooden rods flexibly connected laterally onewith another for the facing of walls, but these known rods are mountedalong their entire length on a continuous fabric and can be bent only inone direction transversely of the plane of the structure comprising therods. As compared with these known facings the subject-matter of myinvention has considerable advantages, namely, the possibility ofadapting the facing in both directions conveniently to all curves, andby pushing the rods closer togetheror farther apart of covering lengthsof wall which vary within certain limits with the same number of rods;the gaps which remain between the rods and which are covered from theoutside owing to the suitable shape of the rods enable the wall to besuitably ventilated in a simple manner.

Several illustrative embodiments of my invention are represented by wayof example in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a frontelevation showing one form of my improved wall facing, Fig. 2 is ahorizontal section, enlarged, through the same, and Fig. 3 is a verticalsection through the facing mounted on a wall; Figs. 4 and 5 are sectionsshowing other forms of my improved facing.

Referring to the drawing, my facing is made as follows: The rods or barsan arranged in a row on the bands a are attached bynails or screws atsuitable distances apart on at least two battens or laths 0 and 03 fixedto the wall, the lower edge of the rods bearing on a bottom batten orlath connected with the batten d. The facing is ended ofl' above by asuitable strip 2' having an ornamental molding 70. Each of these bars ais provided in one edge with a longitudinally extending groove (1 whichis substantially V- shaped in cross section with the side members oredges a and a curved outwardly, the edge a being higher than the edge aas is shown clearly in Fig. 2. The other edge of each bar a has a tonguea extending longitudinally thereof and which is designed to enter thegroove a of the adjacent bar, said tongue being wider than the depth of,the groove and the side walls thereof being concave, the side wall abeing longer than the side wall a", so that the paneling formed by theseconnected bars may be flexed to a greater extent on one side than on theother, and the curved walls of the V-shaped grooves also facilitate theengagement of the tongues of the adjacent bars therewith. By so formingthese bars, it will be understood that the paneling produced byconnecting them, may be flexed or bent in either direction.

When walls having a wave-like surface are to be made with my improvedfacing, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5 the battens attached to the wall areformed as bow members f and g, to which the rods a are nailed asdescribed above. By employing such bow members many kinds of ornamentaleffects can be obtained, quite apart from excellent insulation of heatof the room provided with such a facing being obtained by means of thecorrugated facing which cannot be made out of slabs or panels of wood.In like manner curved ceiling facings can be made by means of bowmemberg.

I claim A flexible wall facing comprising'transversely spaced flexiblebands and a plurality of rods or bars mounted loosely on said bands, thesaid bars having a groove in one edge thereof, substantially V-shaped incross section, and with the edges of the walls of said groove curvedoutwardly, the other edge of said rod having a tongue extendinglongitudinally thereof and adapted to pro 1tongue being wider'thanthedepth of the In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature in the presenceof two Witnesses. ARTHUR BIBERFELD.

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